A woman and her newborn baby are recovering in Wollongong Hospital after she was forced to under undergo an emergency caesarean after eating from a Sydney bakery linked to a salmonella outbreak.

Ashley Buchanan told Radio 2UE Breakfast hosts John Stanley and Garry Linnell that she and her husband went to a birthing class in Sylvania on Sunday before dropping into the Box Village Bakery for lunch.

The couple ate a hot chicken roll each and were both admitted to hospital with severe food poisoning by Sunday night.

Mrs Buchanan's condition began to rapidly deteriorate prompting concern among doctors as she was just over 35 weeks pregnant.

“The infection was so severe and I was so sick,” she said.

By Monday medical staff were discussing the possibility of early delivery, and after her condition worsened on Tuesday, doctors decided to perform an emergency caesarean.

Mrs Buchanan's husband was still in hospital at the time but was so sick he wasn’t allowed into the theatre to see his daughter being born.

However, doctors had found that Mrs Buchanan's placenta had ruptured when they performed the surgery.

“For your first child – or any child – you don’t expect for it to pan out like that. We were just so lucky that the doctors got this in time,” she said.

“It was all quite frightening because my blood pressure went right down and they had to rush me to ICU straight after delivery.”

She was unable to see Ava for the first 24 hours after her birth because she was in ICU.

While her husband has left hospital, Ashley and her daughter remain in recovery. She told the radio hosts that she hopes pregnant women take her story as a warning to be careful when it comes to food.

“I’m devastated I ate it. I’ve been so careful with everything I’ve eaten my whole pregnancy and I opted for the hot chicken roll. I saw that the chicken was in a hot pan and it was steaming I thought, you know, ‘it should be right.’”